Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:16:52 +0800 | From | "Adam J. Richter" <> | Subject | Re: hdparm for lib_pata |
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>>> = Stephen Clark >> = Adam Richter > = Patrick Ale
>> Do you know if these drives were advertising less capability >> than they were spec-ed at? Do you recall if the IDE driver without >> kernel arguments printed its rationale for reverting to the slower >> setting?
[...] >Then, after 2 hours, and resyncing RAID1 MD 1 devices, I started >seeing things like: >"Drive not ready" >"DMA timeout on ..."
I was not asking about Patrick's desktop computer, which was already established to be hardware problem that was fixed by replacing a broken fan. I was asking about Stephen Clark's two laptop computers, which seemed like they might be examples of a need for user level hdparm DMA setting, which is why I prefaced my question with the following quotation:
>>On 2007-02-04 Stephen Clark wrote: >>>I have had two different laptops that had to have boot time command line >>>overrides to get the >>>driver to allow the hardware work at what it was spec-ed at.
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